Paphitis wrote:
Well if they are uneducated idiots (your words) they have to be trained like idiots at their academy. pilots are trained like we are dumb idiots. There isn't a lot of room for error. If event A happens, you must do B. If event C happens you must do D, and so on. There has to be a degree of regimental behaviour in police forces and in flying otherwise mistakes can happen and we kill ourselves. The guesswork hass to be taken out of the equation as much as possible.
It seems obvious to me that police in the States are trained to ensure that their safety is as near as 100% as possible. It's obvious to me that they are trained to assume every suspect is carrying a gun. Hence why, they pull out theirs until the suspect is cuffed or restrained.
I got no problem with them doing things like this. I am sure it is extremely scary to the suspect and the general public. May even appear heavy handed. But I can't blame them for this.
Blocking the airway of a suspect thus killing him, is however, criminal. No question about that.
But as we agree, this isn't a matter of race. More whites are killed by police than blacks. What this is is a case of police brutality costing the life of a man (colour is irrelevant). An action by an officer that needs to be addressed in court along with potentially another 3 officers.
Being a police officer is not about serving the community with pride and honour for the majority who take up the job. For most, they put in their 25 years of service to build up their pensions and benefits and then move onto other things. As long as they have finished their high school education, they can become a cop, given a badge and a gun after their 3 months of training. Even if they had good intentions of becoming a good cop, they are soon corrupted by their piers. The two rookie cops who are charged in the murder of Floyd cannot hide behind the argument that they have only been on the job for 4 days because they had already completed their training at the police academy. Taking part in holding Floyd down when the man already cuffed with his hand on this back, there was no reason to continue holding him down regardless whether or not their senior officer refusing their request to turn Floyd over. They had the option to let go off Floyd and insist to Chauvin to take his knee off Floyd. Bottom line, they being charged for Floyd’s murder is a correct call.
This isn’t the first murder by police where other police officers did not intervened. They are corrupted to protect each other and committing violence on the citizens becomes part of their routine. Corruption breeds corruption and violence against the citizens breeds violence as they are protected from prosecution mainly by the local district attorney’s office, who mostly supported by funds from the police and prison guards unions. Corruption breeds corruption. All previous murders committed by the police which were recorded but were not charged by the district attorney must now be reviewed by independent counsel and bring charges against those officers if and when warranted. Killing citizens and violating their rights by the police and prison guards must stop being their past time hobby.
There was a time where the lower ranking flight crew were afraid to take action against the pilot in command, which lead to many disasters, but that was changed after the Tenerife runway crash of two 747’s killing few hundred, because by not questioning the captain and taking actions to avert disaster, their own lives were too in danger. I am glad that the lower ranking pilots can now question the captain if they feel a mistake has been made by the captain without being afraid being black listed.
Btw, more blacks are killed than whites by the police when you adjust the percentages of the population.
5 months and 9 days to go 
